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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:10:24 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ibm.com> Cc: "Fabio M . Di Nitto" <fabbione@...bione.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk: do not turn off bootconsole in printk_late_init if keep_bootcon On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 17:02:33 -0700 Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ibm.com> wrote: > It seems that commit 7bf693951a8e5f7e600a45b74d91d962a453146e doesn't > always achieve what it aims, as printk_late_init() runs it > unconditionally turns off all boot consoles. With this patch, I am able > to see more messages on the boot console in KVM guests than I can > without, when keep_bootcon is specified. > > Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ibm.com> > Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net> > Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> > Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> The patch is applicable to 2.6.39.x and to 3.0.x but I'm unable to work out if the end-user impact is sufficiently serious to warrant backporting the fix into those kernels. Please let us know you opinion on this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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